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Vor 4 Tagen · Welcome. The Friends of the Argyll Papers was established to support the development of the family and estate archive of the Campbell family, dukes of Argyll, and to promote its use and enjoyment by a wide audience. The Argyll Papers have been described as one of the most important private archives in Britain (Professor Allan Macinnes, 2014).
Vor 5 Tagen · However, her legacy extends far beyond her own accomplishments, as her 9 children played significant roles in shaping the course of European history. Born between 1840 and 1857, Victoria‘s 5 daughters and 4 sons formed alliances, marriages, and dynasties that would influence the royal families of Europe for generations to come.
Vor einem Tag · She was the only daughter of Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll, a Scottish aristocrat and clan chief with a notorious private life, and his first wife Janet Gladys Aitken, who was a daughter of the press baron Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook. The couple had a daughter, actress Kate Mailer.
Vor 5 Tagen · Campbell, Duke of Argyll. Archibald, 10th Earl and 1st Duke of Argyll, was a zealous supporter of William III, whom he accompanied from the Hague to England in 1689. He was afterwards one of the commissioners deputed to offer to William and Mary the crown of Scotland, and he administered the coronation oath.
Vor 2 Tagen · Argyll, Duke of see Campbell, George Douglas Armagh, Archbishop of see Beresford Armstrong-, John, -, Robert Baynes, -, Sir William George, Arnold, Matthew, Arundel and Surrey, Earl of see Fitzalan Howard Ashley Cooper, Anthony, styled Lord Ashley 1811-51 (succ. as 7th Earl of Shaftesbury 2 June 1851), Atherton, Sir William,
Vor 4 Tagen · It then became the property of the Dukes of Argyll; and the great and good Duke John, whom Sir Walter Scott introduces so nobly in the scene with Jeanie Deans and Queen Caroline in 'The Heart of Midlothian,' who had lived in the reigns of Anne and Georges I. and II., and who had fought bravely at Ramillies, Malplaquet, and Oudenarde, and who afterwards beat the rebel Earl of Mar and drove the ...
Vor 3 Tagen · Philippe had a fraught relationship with his brother Leopold, then the Duke of Brabant, who enjoyed teasing his sibling with sarcastic jibes. The younger duke had a much closer connection to Charlotte, a relationship that grew stronger after their mother died in 1850. Their father, Leopold I, was a distant parent who even stipulated that his children had to request an official audience before ...
